Beneath the gritted teeth and backhanded compliments , AT&T and Apple secretly hate each other ! It ’s the sticky details that makeFred Vogelstein ’s frizzly exposeof their dysfunctional kinship worth take . Like how badly AT&T want to the claudication the iPhone .
Behold , AT&T ’s plans for the iPhone , when they understand it was a data point - gobbling daemon , eating 50 pct more than AT&T expected :
Of course AT&T was planning to upgrade its electronic internet to handle the increased demand , [ AT&T Senior VP Kris ] Rinne ’s team told Apple executive , but that was blend in to take long time . In the meantime , would Apple take measures to help throttle back the dealings ? Perhaps Apple could restrict its YouTube app to run only over Wi - Fi . perchance the iPhone could boast a smaller , lower - declaration videostream or trim back off YouTube video after one minute .
You know , on top of no MMS , tethering , 3 G ( at the clock time ) , picture streaming or VOIP .
Apple need to ditch AT&T mere months after the first iPhone launching . In fact , Vogelstein reports , “ One Apple root says that Jobs has discussed dropping AT&T at least half a 12 time . ” Apple started looking at Verizon after just a couple of month . The problem is that the net poker chip would ’ve required entirely re - architecting the sound . So why has n’t it happened ? A seed tells Vogelstein , “ Every time the takings of switching come up , it always seemed to cause as many job as it solve . ”
redemption might come in the form of a new chip that “ Qualcomm began working [ on ] with Apple ” that would allow for a combo AT&T + Verizon iPhone . Not to mention , AT&T ’s exclusive contract may finally be ending . So hey ! Maybe that Verizon iPhone could take place , someday .
Of course , AT&T has its own share of problems with Apple . Vogelstein ’s sources , from Apple and AT&T , heap shit on the iPhone ’s kooky baseband software , which was a immense contributor of dropped call , along with the Infineon networking chipset inside . Oh , and AT&T just wanted them Apple administrator to wear suits to meeting , dammit .
You should whap over to the full firearm for all of AT&T vs. Apple meat . It ’s middling juicy . [ Wired , Neat simulacrum : Wired / Mauricio Alejo ]
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